The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)

337 pointsposted 14 hours ago
by rcdemski
(interactionmagic.com)

30 Comments

Rygian

13 hours ago

The analysis of real-life interfaces is quite interesting, and as a novice in the field I had never reflected much on the by-feature / by-operation / by-technology / by-use case distinction.

mlsu

12 hours ago

Hah! Awesome post. I have to say my favorite as a kid was the white radar screen with the "38" on it. Maybe I should have gone into UX?

jddj

12 hours ago

I'd like it if I could zoom on my phone on a site about ui/ux with small pictures.

iamjackg

12 hours ago

If you're on Android, there's an accessibility option in Firefox and Chrome that allows you to always zoom on any page, even if the website normally prevents it. On Firefox it's under Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom on all websites.

jddj

12 hours ago

That's better, thanks

george_cave

11 hours ago

Hey, I'm the author of this site! You're on Android I think, based on the other comments here? I only have an iPhone to test, but I can pinch+expand the site on my phone no problem. Was not intentional to have blocked it! Sorry, I'll see if I can work out why.

jddj

11 hours ago

Firefox Android, yep.

That makes some sense actually if iOS ignores it. Whenever I come across the behaviour I wonder why, but if it's just a copy/paste magic meta tag which goes unnoticed by most browsers then I can see how that could proliferate.

george_cave

11 hours ago

Ok, this should be fixed now, let me know if you still can't zoom!

tda

11 hours ago

Works for me!

jddj

11 hours ago

Works, thanks

sira04

11 hours ago

It's this in the <head>

  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">
Remove the maximum-scale property.

george_cave

11 hours ago

Thanks! Will try shortly. I guess iOS/Safari just ignores this property then.

ndjdjddjsjj

12 hours ago

My Samsung phone on Chrome lets me.

curtisf

9 hours ago

Only tangentially related, but just yesterday I learned of Lego's defunct "Modulex" brand, and the serious and apparently widely popular Lego-brick-based project management display boards from the '60s to the '90s.

The small size and comforting pastel colors seemed especially inviting to me.

It makes me yearn for more tactile and actually pleasant-to-work-with computer UIs.

matthewfcarlson

9 hours ago

I wonder if there’s a 3D printed version somewhere online

CarVac

5 hours ago

Wow, that Lincoln MKC was unfortunate.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/05/recalled-li...

Seems like they moved the power button to the top of the column.

stavros

43 minutes ago

Does that button really start and stop the engine? In other cars I've seen, the start/stop button (with similar iconography) toggles the start/stop system, which shuts off the engine when the car is stationary to avoid pollution.

istrice

13 hours ago

This kind of post makes me tingle with joy

sghiassy

11 hours ago

It’s like a Christmas ornament. Unnecessary in utility, and yet so fun to enjoy

soulofmischief

13 hours ago

I wish my phone was more like a bop-it.

hennell

4 hours ago

You're only a tube of glue and a bad decision away

seumars

11 hours ago

That's the UI. There's no actual interaction with the screens.

chefandy

an hour ago

Even if they were talking about interaction design (sometimes called IX) specifically, rather than experience design, the interaction is in handling, moving, and combining them. They don’t need to have a dynamic electronic interaction to be interactive. I’m not sure a toy with absolutely no interaction would still be a toy.

eru

6 hours ago

UX stands for user experience, not for interaction?